 | Harriet Murav - Law - 2001 - 288 pages
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 | Daniel A. Farber - History - 2004 - 251 pages
...The Sedition Act attempted to suppress criticism of the government. This law made it a crime to print "any false, scandalous, and malicious writing or writings...either House of the Congress of the United States, with intent to defame ... or to bring them . . . into contempt or disrepute."3 Having lost the struggle... | |
 | Howard Zinn - History - 2003 - 372 pages
...Sedition Acts. The Sedition Act provided that "if any person shall write, print, utter, or publish . . . any false, scandalous and malicious writing or writings...United States, or either house of the Congress of the US or the President of the US, with intent to defame ... or to bring either of them into contempt or... | |
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... any false, scandalous and malicious writing or writings against the government of the United States... 
